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Mathematics (Education) in the Information AgeExperimental Mathematics: Overview and Pedagogical Implications

Mathematics (Education) in the Information Age: Experimental Mathematics: Overview and... [In 2011, the TV quiz show Jeopardy featured two human champions competing against IBM’s Watson, an AI system designed for the event. Watson won the match by a large margin. Then, in 2017, another AI system, AphaGo, beat the world’s Go champion with a creative move that was previously unknown, surprising Go experts. Popularized events such as these have made it saliently obvious to a large audience that AI bears many implications for understanding what intelligence is; and given that those AI systems were the product of a partnership between mathematicians and computer scientists, it is also obvious that they bear specific implications for how mathematics itself is practiced in the current technological environment, called the Information Age or, equally, the Computer Age. If an AI system can be devised to come up with a truly intelligent move in the game of Go, previously unbeknownst to humans, then the question arises: Can AI do creative mathematics? A positive answer does not seem to be beyond the realm of possibility.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Mathematics (Education) in the Information AgeExperimental Mathematics: Overview and Pedagogical Implications

Part of the Mathematics in Mind Book Series
Editors: Costa, Stacy A.; Danesi, Marcel; Martinovic, Dragana
Danesi, Marcel
Mathematics (Education) in the Information Age — Dec 11, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-59176-2
Pages
113 –125
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-59177-9_8
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Abstract

[In 2011, the TV quiz show Jeopardy featured two human champions competing against IBM’s Watson, an AI system designed for the event. Watson won the match by a large margin. Then, in 2017, another AI system, AphaGo, beat the world’s Go champion with a creative move that was previously unknown, surprising Go experts. Popularized events such as these have made it saliently obvious to a large audience that AI bears many implications for understanding what intelligence is; and given that those AI systems were the product of a partnership between mathematicians and computer scientists, it is also obvious that they bear specific implications for how mathematics itself is practiced in the current technological environment, called the Information Age or, equally, the Computer Age. If an AI system can be devised to come up with a truly intelligent move in the game of Go, previously unbeknownst to humans, then the question arises: Can AI do creative mathematics? A positive answer does not seem to be beyond the realm of possibility.]

Published: Dec 11, 2020

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